Washington Girls Track

Coaches pick All-Metro girls track

Here is the 2014 girls All-Metro track team, as selected by the Metro

track coaches.

 

DISCUS

Morgan Martin, Kennedy, 123-8

Lannie Nietert, Linn-Mar, 115-6

 

SHOT PUT

Lannie Nietert, Linn-Mar, 40-7 1/4

Natalie Rumer, Prairie, 38-1 1/2

 

LONG JUMP

Halle Lueck, Prairie, 17-10 1/4

Amara Taylor, Washington, 16-9 1/2

 

HIGH JUMP

Kenzie Soeken, Prairie, 5-3

Jade Irish, Kennedy, 5-0 1/2

 

3000 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 9:24.67

Alyssa Averhoff, Kennedy, 10:28.22

 

4x800 RELAY

Linn-Mar (Hanna Saville, Ally Hicks, Morgan Garcia, Amber Decker) 9:40.44

Jefferson (Adrianna Hargrove, Sarah Hanna, Caleigh Meyer, Meredith Koenigsfeld) 9:51.38

 

SHUTTLE HURDLE RELAY

Jefferson (Abbie Ranschau, Sam Kitterman, Ellie Trosky, Madison Ranschau) 1:04.65

Prairie (McKenna Mumaw, Katie VanDooren, Natalie Bohnsack, Hailee Montgomery) 1:07.78

 

DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY

Linn-Mar (Sarah Renner, Brooke Lorenz, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 4:07.77

Washington (Kadejah Sanders, Megan Muller, Anne Visser, Shannon Gorman) 4:18.64

 

100 METER DASH

Amarri Waller, Kennedy, 12.44

Kadejah Sanders, Washington, 12.46

 

400 METER DASH

Rachel Perry, Linn-Mar, 58.93

Amber Decker, Linn-Mar, 59.06

 

4X200 RELAY

Jefferson (Abbie Ranschau, Jasmine Blue, Morgan Meese, Lucy Schneekloth) 1:41.12

Kennedy (Dekeylah Thomas, Kelsie Coates, Jade Irish, Amarri Waller) 1:45.07

 

100 METER HURDLES

Madie Ranschau, Jefferson, 14.88

Hailee Montgomery, Prairie, 15.63

 

800 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 2:10.20

Amber Decker, Linn-Mar, 2:14.46

 

200 METER DASH

Lucy Schneekloth, Jefferson, 25.17

Amarri Waller, Kennedy, 25.69

 

400 METER HURDLES

Amara Taylor, Washington, 1:05.36

Kelsie Coates, Kennedy, 1:06.80

 

SPRINT MEDLEY

Jefferson (Madison Ranschau, Abbie Ranschau, Lucy Schneekloth, Jasmine Blue) 1:45.94

Linn-Mar (Halley Morgan, Katie Sommer, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 1:49.83

 

1500 METER RUN

Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar, 4:28.72

Alyssa Averhoff, Kennedy, 4:55.18

 

4X100 RELAY

Jefferson (Lucy Schneekloth, Abbie Ranschau, Morgan Meese, Jasmine Blue) 48.17

Washington (Mariah Ward, Jasmyne Jones, Megan Muller, Kadejah Sanders) 49.84

 

4x400 RELAY

Linn-Mar (Hanna Saville, Kennedy Japenga, Rachel Perry, Amber Decker) 3:58.59

Jefferson (McKayla Belew, Meredith Koenigsfeld, Autumn Anderson, Sam Kitterman) 4:06.65

 

HONORABLE MENTION

 

Jefferson: Brianna Prohaska

Kenendy: Kate Nus, Lyndsey Eades

Prairie: Hannah Grimm, Alexis Thumann

Washington: Kristin Mackenburg, Bri Andrews

Xavier: Molly Breitbach, Kayla Torson

Linn-Mar: Dana Sublett, Maddie Saville

Marion: Mahlia Brown

 

COACH OF THE YEAR: Bill Calloway, Jefferson

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 June 2014 17:57

J-Hawks, Jenks win more gold medals

DES MOINES - Jasmine Blue runs fast for a reason.

"I hate getting second," she said with a sweet, determined smile. "I love first."

Blue had that loving feeling Saturday afternoon with a gutsy anchor to help Jefferson win the sprint medley at the Class 4A state track meet in Des Moines.

Ashley Norem of Urbandale made a spirited bid to pull ahead of Blue on the 400 leg of the medley, but Blue refused to concede.

"I felt her the whole time, but I knew I had to do it," said Blue. "I already knew how it was going to feel if I was going to get second."

And as she said before, "I hate second."

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Jeff girls defend crown in 4x200 relay

DES MOINES - The Cedar Rapids Jefferson girls were disappointed in themselves when they finished second in the 4x200 relay at the Drake Relays last month.

They got mad, and Friday they returned to Drake Stadium and got the gold.

Abbie Ranschau, Jasmine Blue, Morgan Meese and Lucy Schneekloth sped to victory in their favorite event in 1 minute, 41.12 seconds for a convincing victory over Dowling Catholic.

Blue and Schneekloth helped the J-Hawks set the all-time state mark in 4x200 relay at the Class 4A state meet last year in 1:40.94. Meese and Schneekloth joined the quartet this year and they produced the third-fastest time ever, just 18-hundredths of a second behind last year's group.

Ranschau, Blue, Meese and Schneekloth are all underclassmen. They plan to be back in 2015 and take another shot at the all-time mark.

"We all want it," said Blue. "We'll get it next year."

Last Updated on Friday, 23 May 2014 19:07

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Jenks snaps own state mark in 3000

DES MOINES - Linn-Mar sophomore Stephanie Jenks gets a big kick out of breaking records.

The bigger, the better.

Jenks struck again Thursday morning, snapping her own state record in the 3000 meter run by more than two seconds at the Class 4A state track meet in Des Moines.

Jenks was clocked in 9 minutes, 24.67 seconds as she ran away with the race and won by more than 31 seconds, similar to her dominating performance at the Drake Relays last month.

Jenks broke her own all-time state mark of 9:26.87 and topped the meet record of 9:27.25 set by Katie Flood of Dowling Catholic in 2010.

Her next target could be the all-time national record in the 3000 of 9:08.6.

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